Crits and bouncing off

[mrissa]

We have a markgritter again, though it certainly took long enough for the airport to disgorge him.

At the airport I finished reading Liz Williams's The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories. I am officially done with Liz Williams until someone I respect specifically recommends one of her books as better than the others. I've read four novels and a short story collection, and I kept wanting to like them, and not a one really clicked for me. That seems like a fair try to me.

If you're on the filter of people who occasionally want to do crits for me, you will have just seen a post where I'm soliciting some. If you can't see that post and would like to be in on that filter, please do let me know. No obligations involved with being on the filter, of course.

Treason's Harbour and I are going to bed.

Comments

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I like the mental image of the airport disgorging markgritter -- airport doors forming a giant spitting-out mouth.

I'd love to be on the filter, please.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have added you.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

I try to be an honest but kind critter. I'm full of opinions and not afraid to share them but I'm not attached to them, so it doesn't bother me at all when people disagree with me. If this doesn't sound horrifying to you, I'd like to be on your filter.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Added.

[scott-lynch.livejournal.com]

I am officially done with Liz Williams until someone I respect specifically recommends one of her books as better than the others.

Curious; I really dug The Poison Master, but that's all I've read from her. Not a great narrative construct, but I thought it was kinda sexy and alchemy is one of my geek soft spots. What four books have you read?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, that was just it: alchemy is one of my geek soft spots, too, and Stuff That Smells generally. I looked at this book and thought, ooh, this will be one of my good ones. And then it...wasn't.

I've read The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories, The Poison Master, Empire of Bones, Nine Layers of Sky, and The Ghost Sister. I couldn't say what was wrong with them. They just didn't thrill me.